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The Administrative Assistant test evaluates a candidate's aptitude for understanding numerical information, comprehension of written communication, and ability to make logical conclusions about facts and figures.

It's an ideal test for the pre-employment screening of candidates applying for office-based clerical roles, such as administrative assistants or secretaries. A good candidate for an administrative assistant job will be able to display a high level of numerical ability, including an accurate understanding of tables and charts, thorough comprehension of written information presented in emails or reports, and the ability to avoid logical fallacies when making key decisions.

This test requires candidates to demonstrate an understanding of numerical information and competency with solving numerical problems, the ability to identify true/false statements and effective summaries based on written texts, and a selection of valid conclusions when presented with a set of preconditions.

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Album Sales

The majority of todays office-based jobs require thoughtful, logical decisions, as well as the ability to rationalize them.

Zero-sum thinking

Zero-sum thinking

A cognitive bias that describes when an individual thinks that a situation is like a zero-sum game, where one person's gain would be another's loss, can lead to less than optimal solutions where both persons lose more than they should.

Public

Public

Public questions (free account) are common interview questions. They are great for practicing, or if you want to filter candidates using the classic problems.

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Cats

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Verbal Reasoning

Verbal Reasoning

Understanding and reasoning based on text from emails, reports, and other written communication is an important task in any job that includes something more than every-day repetition of established procedures.

True statement

True statement

Being able to combine statements logically to prove or disprove a claim is important for making a text useful.

Public

Public

Public questions (free account) are common interview questions. They are great for practicing, or if you want to filter candidates using the classic problems.

Cats are common pets throughout the world, and their worldwide population exceeds 500 million.

Cats are the second most popular pet in the U.S. by number of pets owned, behind freshwater fish. Although cat ownership has commonly been associated with women, research has shown that men and women in the U.S. are equally likely to own a cat.

They are ranked as the third most popular pet in the U.K. by number of pets owned, after fish and dogs, with 8 million being owned.

Skills

The majority of today's office-based jobs require an understanding of numerical information (numbers, tables, charts) and the ability to rationalize them.

Linear systems

Linear systems

The data-analysis process often comes down to solving a simple linear equation to get the desired information.

Table lookup

Table lookup

Being able to read tables quickly and accurately is an integral part of most office-based jobs today.

Chart lookup

Chart lookup

Being able to read charts quickly and accurately is an integral part of most office-based jobs today.

Percentages

Percentages

Understanding percentages is one of the most important skills for anyone working with numerical information.

Verbal Reasoning

Verbal Reasoning

Understanding and reasoning based on text from emails, reports, and other written communication is an important task in any job that includes something more than every-day repetition of established procedures.

Most effective summary

Most effective summary

To summarize an article effectively, one must fully understand it and be able to identify its essence.

Newspaper excerpts

Newspaper excerpts

Newspaper articles are one of the most common sources of information. Reading and understanding the content is something that everybody needs to be able to do.

True statement

True statement

Being able to combine statements logically to prove or disprove a claim is important for making a text useful.

Logical Reasoning

Logical Reasoning

The majority of todays office-based jobs require thoughtful, logical decisions, as well as the ability to rationalize them.

Argument from fallacy

Argument from fallacy

Automatically accepting that the conclusion is wrong because one of the arguments is wrong means that we can be subject to manipulation.

Fallacy of the undistributed middle

Fallacy of the undistributed middle

The fallacy of the undistributed middle occurs when the statement that links the two premises is never distributed. This can introduce errors at the early stages of the decision-making process.

Non-independent events

Non-independent events

Recognizing when two events are independent is often important when making a decision.

Inductive reasoning

Inductive reasoning

Being able to make a prediction, which is based on statements supplying strong evidence, is important for making almost any decision.

Fallacy of composition

Fallacy of composition

The error of assuming that what is true of a member of a group is true for the group as a whole.

Attribute substitution

Attribute substitution

When we try to answer a difficult question, we often actually answer a related but different question, without realizing that a substitution has taken place and this can lead to wrong decisions.

Arithmetic

Arithmetic

Arithmetic is a fundamental branch of mathematics. An understanding of arithmetic concepts, and their application, is important for every candidate.

Mechanics

Mechanics

The basic principles of mechanics, such as time and speed, are very common in almost any business analysis.

Divide and conquer

Divide and conquer

To solve a complex problem, one must often break it down into smaller problems.

Double counting

Double counting

Double counting is a fallacy in which we count events two or more times, resulting in an erroneous number of event, which is higher than the true result. Such mistakes are often very costly.

Gambler's fallacy

Gambler's fallacy

Also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy, the gambler's fallacy is the mistaken belief that, if something happens more frequently than normal during a given period, it will happen less frequently in the future, and can lead to wrong decisions.

Correlation and causation

Correlation and causation

Establishing a cause-and-effect relationship where one doesn't exist is a common cause for making wrong decisions.

Affirming a disjunct

Affirming a disjunct

The fallacy lies in concluding that one disjunct must be false because the other disjunct is true. It's important to recognize that both disjuncts might be true when making decisions.

Deductive logic

Deductive logic

Also known as deductive reasoning, this is the process of reasoning from one or more statements (premises) to reach a logically certain conclusion. It is a necessary part of any argument.

Fallacy of division

Fallacy of division

A fallacy of division occurs when one mistakenly concludes that something true for the whole must also be true of all or some of its parts.

Affirming the consequent

Affirming the consequent

Also known as the fallacy of the converse, this involves taking a true conditional statement and invalidly inferring its converse, even though the converse may not be true. Such errors are very common and can result in a failure to consider other causes.

Fallacy of exclusive premises

Fallacy of exclusive premises

A valid syllogism can't have two negative premises. For exclusive premises, both are negative and the syllogism is invalid. Not noticing this can lead to unwanted results.

Circular reasoning

Circular reasoning

A logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to conclude. Failing to notice such a fallacy can lead to making important decision based on arguments that are not necessarily true.

Set theory

Set theory

Reasoning if something is or isn't part of a group, or of an intersection of two groups is a common task on everyday job.

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